Asa Adgate

Asa Adgate (17 November 1767-15 February 1832) was a member of the US House of Representatives (DR-NY 12) from 7 December 1815 to 3 March 1817, succeeding Zebulon R. Shipherd and preceding John Palmer.

Biography
Asa Adgate was born in Canaan, New York in 1767, and he moved to Ausable Chasm in 1793 and became a farmer and iron manufacturer. He became town clerk of Peru and served in the State Assembly in 1798 and in 1823, as Commissioner of the Peace of Essex County, and in the US House of Representatives from 1815 to 1817. He died in 1832.